32nd Annual William C. Vaughan Memorial Lecture

Join us for the 32nd Annual William C. Vaughan Memorial Lecture: Avian Migration, Physiology, and Speciation at Elevational Extremes with speaker Dr. Jessie L. Williamson, NSF Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Biology & Rose Fellow, Cornell University.

Dr. Williamson will discuss her research on birds that make extreme seasonal shifts in elevation during migration, and will talk about how these movements affect ecology, evolution, and physiology. Her lecture will focus on her recent work with giant hummingbirds (Patagona spp.) in Peru and Chile, in which she’s combined migration tracking, genomics, and field physiology to uncover a spectacular long-distance migratory journey with an extreme elevational ascent – and a cryptic speciation event, resulting in description of the world’s largest hummingbird species.

All ages

Free with registration